An American unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed in south-western Pakistan on Thursday evening, near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border.
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
Reaper Crash Lands at Holloman US Air Force Base
Officials with the 49th Wing of the US Air Force announced that a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper sustained damage during landing at Holloman Air Force Base at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24.
Three ISAF Unmanned Aircraft Down in Afghanistan
A unmanned aircraft of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has come down in southern Afghanistan due to a technical failure, the alliance said on Saturday.
Raven Crashes in Mogadishu
Security officials in Somalia say that a UAS crashed into a house near the Libyan Embassy in the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, but they did not provide details about who was operating the unmanned aircraft.
Ground-Based Sense-and-Avoid Would Have Prevented Hercules/Shadow Mid-Air Collision
A ground-based sense-and-avoid system being prototyped by the U.S. Army would have prevented the mid-air collision of a C-130 Hercules airlifter with RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aircraft at a forward operation base in eastern Afghanistan on August 15, a service official says.
C-130 Cargo Plane Hits RQ-7 Shadow in Afghanistan
US Air Force Captain Justin Brockhoff, a spokesman for the military in Afghanistan, confirmed that a C-130 cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday at a forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan after colliding with an RQ-7 Shadow, an unmanned aircraft that is usually operated by the Army and the Marine Corps.
Falcon Hypersonic Aircraft Test Flight Fails
Engineers and scientists monitoring the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, which was designed to fly at 20 times the speed of sound, lost contact with the vehicle midway through a scheduled 30-minute flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Fire Scout Was Downed by Gadhafi’s Forces
A US Navy unmanned aircraft that disappeared along the coast in central Libya in June was probably shot down by Colonel Gadhafi’s forces, a U.S. military investigation has concluded.